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Which isn't ideal, but easily better than the pentagon that has literally never passed a full audit since they started auditing them in 2018. I'm a huge fan of musk's company's, bu…

copy-left is referred to as open source and some even claim it's _more_ open source, but thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of the that detail. edit: oh it's not copyleft, …

you hate the company or the product? How does someone hate a company the open sourced all of their patents which resulted in creating a ton of competition in a previously dominated…

> even if Americans do speak more like the Elizabethan English than today’s Brits themselves I get the sense that the article very much believes Americans speak more traditional En…

> War destroys existing structures and gives them a chance to evolve again. are you suggesting that destroying things, results in improvement in the long run? I don't know that I c…

I just don't believe this, not because I have hard data, but it just doesn't make any sense. Sure, the central banks will do everything they can to ignite the economy and everyone …

people don't demand wealth equality after a war, they just create massive inflation during the war and solve it by taking everyone's savings after the war...half the countries in e…

being unlawful is a vital tool for people to keep tyranny in check, I would hope that most people are incredibly strong supporters of lawlessness when the laws are wrong. To give a…

> Newtonian physics is still settled science even though we have relativity to give more accurate results.. You've proved my entire point in your very first sentence and then go on…

> Germ theory is settled science. Is it theoretically possible that we'll overturn it? Sure. You need to understand that every single theory will be improved upon in the future. Th…

Ironically, it's often attributed to religion that they claim settled truths that can't be proven.

There's no such thing as "settled science". You can not prove that any scientific consensus has no flaws in the same way you can't prove the absence of bugs in any software. It's u…

Can we give this fear-mongering a rest? This is his second term, he didn't topple democracy in his first term and everyone made the same arguments back then. If anything the democr…

load isn't what causes degradation, it's heat and as someone who has mined crypto for years I'm aware that there are a lot of things that can be done to run hardware quite hard and…

Seems like the news headlines should read "President makes a mistake that benefits crypto grifters, but luckily for the grifters the only blame seems to be attributed to the presid…

yeah, that's a reasonable take for sure, but probably worthy of a call out that there are a lot of metrics that go into defining freedom.

Here's an attempt at objectively measuring freedom that has texas ranking as more free than colorado https://www.freedominthe50states.org/

Every job in the world is discriminatory if you take the less potent definition of the word. That's why we have job interviews, to explicitly discriminate. I presume you mean "disc…

I'm very skeptical that you're having a hard time sourcing this information. I have pages from my google search with easily 75% of the results confirming my claim. Either way, here…

yet in the US just as many households have reported using drugs as own guns

Australians, for example, don't want guns relative to Americans. It's not hard to ban things people don't want. Prior to 1996 gun laws in Australia, home ownership was like 15%. In…

If you think proper gun laws would keep guns away from evil people in the US, please explain to me why the war against illegal drugs in the US has been losing since the day it star…

it's interesting to me how easily you can fact check the statement: > Everyone has a gun on their person with no licensing requirements. Yet at the NRA conference they ban guns. ye…

To play devil's advocate: That's quite the claim and a bit misleading. Successful businesses have been firing customers forever. I think they intend on insulting users they want to…

Ethics aren't objective anyway, so it's not useful to rely on them. The US prides itself on being a melting pot full of diverse entrepreneurs. Diversity means different sets of eth…